In this book, Ginette Paris pioneers a new genre of psychological writing that combines intimate personal biography, deeply moving patient stories, and radical, breathtaking theoretical speculation about the future of depth psychology. She believes that at the next stage of evolution, psychology will become less interested in pathology, leaving it to neuroscience, and will become a kind of philosophical training that can prepare the individual for a journey through the land of joy and pain. The need to descend into the realm of Hades is a central idea of depth psychology, and this idea is re-explored in this book.